1 •
George Banks, 46, American baseball player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. •
Henry Butters, 86, Scottish civil servant. •
Charlotte Delbo, 71, French memoirist (
Auschwitz and After), lung cancer. •
Oscar C. Eliason, 83, Swedish-born American evangelist. •
Han Xianglin, 78-79, Chinese humanitarian. •
Abdul Kadir, 67-68, Turkish poet. •
Daniel Richard Lascelles, 76, British barrister. •
Eugene List, 66, American pianist, fall. •
Buck MacDonald, 90, American football player. •
Bob Parsons, 69, American basketball player. •
Alf Pope, 80, English racewalker. •
Marcelle Rumeau, 72, French politician. •
Alfred Martyn Williams, 87, British politician,
MP (1924–1929). •
Ralph Williams, 79, Welsh footballer. •
Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, 86, Montenegrin-American dancer. •
Alfred Zeisler, 87, American-born German filmmaker.
2 •
Carl Bacchus, 80, American football player. •
Edgar Behr, 74, German Olympic sailor (
1932). •
Arthur Champion, Baron Champion, 87, British politician,
MP (1945–1959). •
Mercury Ghilarov, 72, Soviet soil scientist. •
Jackson Graham, 69, American general. •
Leslie Green, 71, American baseball player. •
Lauri Hakulinen, 85, Finnish linguist. •
Omer Huyse, 86, Belgian racing cyclist. •
Jack Kelly Jr., 57, American Olympic rower (
1956) and politician, heart attack. •
Robert Bruce Lindsay, 85, American physicist. •
Tim Robb, 60, Australian footballer. •
Wilhelm Rothmayer, 74, Austrian Olympic runner (
1936). •
Runme Shaw, 84, Singaporean businessman (
Shaw Organisation). •
William Stringfellow, 56, American theologian, lawyer, and activist, diabetes. •
Gyula Szepes, 85, Hungarian Olympic skier (
1928). •
Julie Vlasto, 81, French tennis player. •
Alexander Watt, 92, Scottish botanist.
3 •
Alan Beaney, 80, British politician,
MP (1959–1974). •
Sarah Gibson Blanding, 86, American academic administrator. •
Kyril Bonfiglioli, 56, British novelist (
Mortdecai) and art dealer, cirrhosis. •
Jack Boyd, 63, Australian politician. •
Krešimir Friedrich, 86, Yugoslav Croatian tennis player. •
Thomas F. Gallagher, 87, American judge. •
Connie Gilchrist, 89, American actress. •
Jean Nickels, 68, Luxembourgish Olympic canoeist (
1948). •
F. S. Northedge, 66, British political scientist. •
Howard Okey, 79, Australian footballer. •
Noel Purcell, 84, Irish actor. •
Hermann Roßmann, 83, German writer. •
Sándor Scheiber, 71, Hungarian rabbi, cancer. •
Iosif Shklovsky, 68, Soviet astrophysicist and astronomer.
4 •
Pete Karpuk, 58, Canadian football player, heart attack. •
Julia Southard Lee, 87, American textile chemist. •
Odd Rasdal, 73, Norwegian Olympic runner (
1936). •
Rod Smylie, 89, Canadian ice hockey player. •
Vera Brown Starr, 60, American politician. •
Lukas Strachan, 77, South African rugby player. •
Sverre Strandli, 59, Norwegian Olympic hammer thrower (
1952,
1956,
1960). •
Wolfgang Weber, 82, German photojournalist and film producer.
5 •
William Dawnay-Mould, 83, English-born Australian politician. •
John Finlay, 66, English footballer. •
Sven-Olov Lawesson, 58, Swedish chemist. •
Thomas Little, 98, American set decorator. •
Dave McGrath, 85, Australian footballer. •
Oskar Ritter, 83, German footballer. •
Pat Ryan, 34, New Zealand rugby player, cancer. •
Eric Sloane, 80, American artist, heart attack. •
Cyril Stiles, 80, New Zealand Olympic rower (
1932). •
Willard Stone, 69, American woodcarver. •
Ruben Tagalog, 62, Filipino actor and musician. •
Alter Tsypkin, 94, Soviet lawyer and legal scholar. •
Brenda Ueland, 93, American journalist and author.
6 •
Martin Begley, 81, American actor and talent scout. •
Klemens Biniakowski, 82, Polish Olympic sprinter (
1928). •
Hans Brunke, 80, German footballer. •
Russell Cunningham, 79, Canadian politician. •
Martha Dix, 89, German goldsmith and silversmith. •
Elise Harmon, 75, American chemist, biologist and inventor. •
Sebastian Huber, 83, German Olympic bobsledder (
1928,
1932). •
Kenneth McFarland, 78, American educator and political commentator. •
Marisa Mori, 84, Italian painter. •
Marion Nicoll, 75, Canadian painter. •
Denzil Peiris, 67, Sri Lankan journalist. •
Anthony Russo, 65, American politician, member of the
Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1972).
7 •
Danny Blair, 80, Scottish footballer. •
Wilfred Brown, Baron Brown, 76, British businessman and politician. •
Frank Catrone, 78, American horse racing jockey. •
Max Cross, 50, Australian footballer. •
Victorio Edades, 89, Filipino painter. •
Victor Farris, 75, American businessman and inventor. •
Arkady Fiedler, 90, Polish journalist and traveler. •
Raúl Lacabanne, 70, Argentine politician. •
Sir Ralph Morton, 88, Zimbabwean judge. •
Clara Winsome Muirhead, 69, Scottish botanist. •
Alan Muntz, 85, British aeronautical engineer. •
Jessie Oonark, 79, Canadian artist. •
George Schick, 76, Czech-American conductor and music educator. •
Robert W. Woodruff, 95, American businessman (
The Coca-Cola Company) and philanthropist.
8 •
G. Allana, 78, Pakistani author and poet. •
Edward Andrews, 70, American actor, heart attack. •
Bertram L. Baker, 87, American politician, member of the
New York State Assembly (1949–1970). •
Bull Curry, 71, American professional wrestler, liver disease. •
Edgar Dale, 84, American educator. •
George A. Doole Jr., 75, American Air Force pilot. •
Gladys Egan, 84, American actress. •
Lorenzo Elizaga, 81, Mexican Olympic bobsledder (
1928). •
Reuben Goodstein, 72, English mathematician. •
Laura Guggenbühl, 83, American mathematician. •
LeRoy R. Hafen, 91, American historian. •
Ralph Ingersoll, 84, American publisher. •
Kim Yong-sik, 74, South Korean footballer. •
Charles Guy Parsloe, 84, British historian and politician. •
Paul Ramdohr, 95, German mineralogist. •
Margaretta Salinger, 77, American art historian. •
Runor Sandström, 75, Swedish Olympic water polo player (
1936). •
Lon Stiner, 81, American football player and coach. •
Al Todd, 83, American baseball player, manager and scout. •
Donald M. Weller, 76, American general. •
James Roger Whelan, 70, Canadian RAF pilot.
9 •
Robert Blackwell, 66, American record producer and bandleader, pneumonia. •
Harry Catterick, 65, English footballer. •
William Fisher, 94, American painter. •
Chan Gurney, 88, American politician, member of the
U.S. Senate (1939–1951). •
Edmund Henry Hambly, 80, British politician, linguist and surgeon. •
Campbell Hoy, 92, British flying ace. •
Percy Hunt, 62, Australian footballer. •
William E. Jenner, 76, American politician, member of the
U.S. Senate (1944–1945, 1947–1959), respiratory disease. •
John Tudor Jones, 81, Welsh journalist, poet and translator. •
Richard Oetzel, 83, German politician. •
Isaac Phills, 89, Canadian steelworker. •
K. Rajalingam, 75, Sri Lankan politician. •
Annar Ryen, 75, Norwegian skier. •
Göran Widenfelt, 56, Swedish Olympic athlete (
1948,
1952).
10 •
Alan Barber, 79, English cricketer. •
Gustavo Capanema, 84, Brazilian politician. •
Konstantin Chernenko, 73, Soviet politician,
general secretary (since 1984), emphysema. •
Bill Cooper, 70, American baseball player. •
Salawati Daud, 75, Indonesian politician. •
James Frazier, 44, American conductor. •
Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, 69, British businessman and hereditary peer. •
Wally Hull, 78, English speedway racer. •
Angelo Raffaele Jervolino, 94, Italian politician. •
Eddie Lang, 49, American R&B singer. •
Bob Nieman, 58, American baseball player, heart attack. •
Israel Regardie, 77, English-American magician and occultist, heart attack. •
Leslie Nelson Shaw, 62, American postmaster. •
Joan Shorenstein, 38, American journalist, breast cancer. •
C. B. van Niel, 87, Dutch-American microbiologist.
11 •
Tom Adams, 53, Barbadian politician,
prime minister (since 1976), heart attack. •
Nazem Akkari, 82-83, Lebanese politician,
prime minister (1952). •
William Bailey, 66, British-Portuguese naval commander. •
Ernest W. Barrett, 62, American politician. •
Mitter Bedi, 59, Indian photographer, heart failure. •
Laurent Boillat, 73, Swiss sculptor. •
Constant Bucher, 85, Swiss Olympic athlete (
1920,
1924). •
Brigitte Gros, 59, French politician and journalist. •
Lee Shepherd, 40, American racing driver, racing crash. •
Indumati Chimanlal Sheth, 78, Indian politician and independence activist.
12 •
Earle Clements, 88, American politician, member of the
U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1948) and
Senate (1950–1957),
governor of Kentucky (1947–1950). •
José de Rivera, 80, American sculptor, complications from a stroke. •
Alfred Eluère, 91, French rugby player. •
Ronald Gibbs, 84, American football player and coach. •
Harry Gideonse, 83, Dutch-born American economist. •
Ragnvald Marensius Gundersen, 77, Norwegian politician. •
Sig Herzig, 87, American screenwriter and playwright. •
Hugh Hibbert, 73, English cricketer. •
Stjepan Horvat, 89, Yugoslav Croatian
geodesist and academic administrator. •
Harras Kyttä, 72, Finnish politician,
MP (1951–1964). •
George L. Leech, 94, American Roman Catholic prelate. •
Alastair Mars, 70, English submarine commander and author. •
Eugene Ormandy, 85, Hungarian-born American violinist and conductor, pneumonia. •
Juan Sordo Madaleno, 68, Mexican architect. •
Yang Kui, 78, Taiwanese writer and activist.
13 •
Mabel Alvarez, 93, American painter. •
Elmer A. Benson, 89, American politician,
governor of Minnesota (1937–1939), member of the
U.S. Senate (1935–1936). •
Louise Holland Coe, 90, American politician, member of the
New Mexico Senate (1925–1941). •
Dinesh Das, 71, Indian poet and political activist. •
Hans Eckstein, 76, German Olympic water polo player (
1932). •
Hossein Gol-e-Golab, 89-90, Iranian scholar and lyricist ("
Ey Iran"). •
Jules Gregory, 64, American architect. •
Annette Hanshaw, 83, American singer, cancer. •
Henry Hunt, 61, Canadian woodcarver. •
Stephen Morin, 34, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection. •
Bernard Nanga, 50, Cameroonian philosopher and sociologist. •
Narla Venkateswara Rao, 76, Indian journalist and politician. •
Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd, 39, American socialite, lung cancer. •
Evald Segerström, 82, Swedish Olympic racewalker (
1936). •
Bob Shad, 65, American record producer, heart attack. •
Jesús Silva Herzog, 92, Mexican economist and historian. •
James D. Williams, 42, American politician, member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives (since 1981).
14 •
Norma Elizabeth Boyd, 96, American educator. •
Joe Brown, 75, American sculptor. •
Hélio Lourenço de Oliveira, 67, Brazilian physician. •
Wilf Humble, 48, English footballer. •
Kathleen Lemass, 86, Irish socialite,
spouse of the Taoiseach (1959–1966). •
Sir Arthur Nevill, 85, New Zealand military aviator. •
Jock O'Brien, 76, Australian footballer. •
František Patočka, 80, Czechoslovak microbiologist. •
Karel Zouhar, 68, Czechoslovak military aviator.
15 •
George Abramson, 81, American football player. •
Elizabeth Ann Bartholomew, 72, American botanist. •
Oscar J. Brittingham Jr., 78, American politician. •
Radha Krishna Choudhary, 64, Indian historian, cardiac arrest. •
Morry Davis, 90, British politician. •
Alan A. Freeman, 64, English record producer. •
Helge Haavind, 68, Norwegian barrister. •
Ian Lapraik, 69, British soldier. •
Aroj Ali Matubbar, 84, Bangladeshi philosopher. •
Kazimierz Polus, 55, Polish convicted serial killer, execution by hanging.
16 •
Mehdi Bakeri, 30, Iranian soldier,
killed in action. •
Marius Cayouette, 80, Canadian organist and composer. •
Musuri Krishnamurthy, 55, Indian actor and filmmaker. •
Archibald Lamont, 77, Scottish paleontologist and geologist. •
Frédéric Langrenay, 85, French Olympic runner (
1920). •
Jean Purdy, 39, British embryologist, melanoma. •
Edwin J. Roland, 80, American Coast Guard admiral. •
Bert Röling, 78, Dutch jurist. •
G. B. Senanayake, 71, Sri Lankan novelist. •
Roger Sessions, 88, American composer and music educator. •
Eddie Shore, 82, Canadian ice hockey player. •
Ernst Tillich, 74, German theologian.
17 •
Anita Boyer, 69, American singer. •
Nikolai Gusarov, 79, Soviet Byelorussian politician. •
Frank Lock, 63, English footballer. •
Bongi Makeba, 34, South African singer, complications from childbirth. •
Eva Morrison, 74, American long-distance swimmer. •
Ike Pearson, 68, American baseball player. •
Dattu Phadkar, 59, Indian cricketer. •
Ali-Akbar Shahnazi, 87, Iranian
tar musician. •
Athole Shearer, 84, Canadian-American actress and socialite. •
Kelly Tarlton, 47, New Zealand marine archaeologist.
18 •
Ernest Cassutto, 65, Dutch-American memoirist. •
Myrtle Cook, 83, Canadian Olympic runner (
1928). •
Charlie Healy, 85, Australian footballer. •
Walter T. McCarthy, 86-87, American judge. •
Pang Xunqin, 78, Chinese artist. •
Victor Staley, 85, English footballer. •
Merrill C. Tenney, 80, American Biblical scholar and theologian. •
L. R. G. Treloar, 78, British polymer scientist. •
Dudley Williams, 75-76, Australian public servant. •
Eddie Younger, 62, American basketball player.
19 •
Cairo Dixon, 74, Australian footballer. •
Oliver Dolan, 91, English rugby player. •
Giuseppe Ercolani, 83, Italian racing cyclist. •
Michał Górski, 73, Polish Olympic skier (
1936). •
Thomas J. Hatem, 59, American politician, member of the
Maryland House of Delegates (1955–1958), leukemia. •
Anthony Nelson Keys, 73, British film producer. •
Everett Newcomb, 89, Canadian politician. •
Erik Palmén, 86, Finnish meteorologist. •
Jesús Reyes Heroles, 63, Mexican politician, lung cancer. •
Leopold Tyrmand, 64, Polish-American writer and novelist, heart attack. •
Harue Yamashita, 83, Japanese politician.
20 •
Victor Capesius, 78, German pharmacist and concentration camp official. •
W. L. Cook, 90, American politician, member of the
Arizona House of Representatives (1949–1963). •
John B. Lis, 69, American politician, member of the
New York State Assembly (1954–1972), cancer. •
Margarete Rosenberg, 74, German train conductor and Holocaust survivor. •
Robert Young, 93, British politician,
MP (1929–1931).
21 •
Bjørn Benterud, 84, Norwegian sports official. •
Tito Davison, 72, Chilean-born Mexican filmmaker. •
Stevan Jakuš, 63, Yugoslav footballer. •
Hossein Khalatbari, 35, Iranian fighter pilot,
shootdown. •
Billy Lynch, 75, Australian footballer. •
Stefan Matuszewski, 79, Polish politician and educator. •
Hassan Qraytim, 65-66, Lebanese politician. •
Sir Michael Redgrave, 77, English actor (
Mourning Becomes Electra,
Time Without Pity,
The Browning Version), Parkinson's disease. •
Stanisław Rembek, 83, Polish novelist. •
Joseph Tezanos, 64, American Coast Guard officer. •
Michael Trubshawe, 79, British actor. •
Donald Wright, 78, American judge.
22 •
Arthur Allyn Jr., 71, American baseball executive. •
Hamoud Al-Jaifi, 67, Yemeni politician,
prime minister (1964–1965). •
Ben Jannif, 76, Fijian politician. •
Albin Jansson, 87, Swedish ice hockey player. •
Salomon Klass, 77, Finnish soldier. •
Grégoire Laurent, 79, Luxembourgish Olympic boxer (
1924). •
Károly Olt, 80, Hungarian politician. •
Frank Sancet, 77, American baseball player. •
Raoul Ubac, 74, French artist. •
Spyros Vassiliou, 81, Greek artist. •
Marvin Yancy, 34, American gospel singer, heart attack.
23 •
Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, 71, British railway executive. •
Peter Charanis, 76, Greek-born American historian. •
Anton Constandse, 85, Dutch author and journalist. •
Ben Hardwick, 3, British child, country's youngest liver transplant patient, complications from surgery. •
Patricia Roberts Harris, 60, American politician and diplomat,
HUD secretary (1977–1979) and
HHS secretary (1979–1981), breast cancer. •
Reginald Hyde, 72, New Zealand flying ace. •
Asao Koike, 54, Japanese actor. •
Joseph-Armand Landry, 66, Canadian politician,
MP (1957–1958). •
José Alberto Medrano, 67, Salvadoran general, shot. •
Lefty Mellix, 88, American baseball player. •
Joseph Novales, 47, Spanish-born French racing cyclist. •
Zoot Sims, 59, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer.
24 •
Arthur Blake, 71, American actor and drag queen, heart attack. •
Johnny Curran, 60, Scottish footballer. •
Dorothy Gordon, 94, Australian actress and journalist. •
Dick Kinney, 68, American comic book writer and animator. •
Malcolm Laney, 74-75, American college sports coach. •
George London, 64, American opera singer, heart attack. •
José Luis Munguía, 25, Salvadoran footballer, traffic collision. •
Arthur D. Nicholson, 37, American soldier, shot. •
Colm O'Brien, 37, Irish Olympic fencer (
1968). •
Sandër Prosi, 65, Albanian actor. •
Elwyn B. Robinson, 79, American historian. •
Dorothy Roe, 80, American journalist. •
Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher, 88, German legal scholar. •
Ed Stege, 71, American basketball player.
25 •
Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, 75, Danish actor. •
Curt Barclay, 53, American baseball player, cancer. •
Horace Birks, 87, British general. •
William Clyde, 72, British flying ace. •
Victor Herman, 69, American parachute jumper and Soviet prisoner. •
Thelma Kench, 71, New Zealand Olympic sprinter (
1932). •
Zvee Scooler, 85, Russian-born American actor and radio commentator. •
Joe Wood, 65, American baseball player, house fire.
26 •
Mort Hoppenfeld, 56, American urban planner, heart attack. •
Norton Hughes-Hallett, 89, British cricketer. •
Žarko Jovanović, 59, Yugoslav Serbian musician. •
Kamraj Kesari, 62, Indian cricketer. •
Delmas H. Nucker, 77, American politician and government official, heart attack. •
Irene Savidge, 79, British factory worker and police interrogation subject. •
John Ward-Harrison, 66-67, British general. •
Henry J. Wilson, 80, British soldier and farmer.
27 •
Pierino Baffi, 54, Italian racing cyclist. •
Hugh Farquharson, 73, Canadian ice hockey player. •
Mae Glover, 78, American blues singer. •
Lydia Manley Henry, 93, British-Canadian medical practitioner. •
Ingeborg Hoffmann, 63, German actress, pulmonary embolism. •
Ben Ramsey, 81, American politician,
lieutenant governor of Texas (1951–1961). •
Edgar Preston Richardson, 82, American museum director and art historian, complications from a stroke. •
Don Rico, 72, American comic book writer and artist, co-creator of
Black Widow, cancer. •
Robert Shaw, 80, American politician, member of the
Ohio Senate (1967–1972). •
Ellen S. Spinden, 87, American archaeologist. •
Péter Szervánszky, 71, Hungarian violinist. •
Einar Tufte-Johnsen, 69, Norwegian aviation officer. •
Christopher Vokes, 80, Canadian general.
28 •
Princess Amalie Isabella of Bavaria, 63, German royal. •
Louis-Philippe Beaubien, 82, Canadian politician. •
J. Seelye Bixler, 90, American academic administrator, pneumonia. •
Ana Rosa Chacón, 95-96, Costa Rican educator and social activist. •
Marc Chagall, 97, Russian-French artist. •
Ray Dodge, 84, American Olympic runner (
1924). •
József Györe, 82, Hungarian politician. •
Henry Hansen, 83, Danish racing cyclist. •
Eduard Neumann, 81, German philologist. •
Marcus Nikkanen, 81, Finnish Olympic figure skater (
1928,
1932,
1936). •
Jackie Parr, 64, English footballer. •
Edward Rosen, 78, American historian, heart failure. •
Sandford Lad, 14, British Thoroughbred racehorse. •
Odie Spears, 60, American basketball player. •
C. Clifton Virts, 75, American politician, member of the
Maryland House of Delegates (1947–1978). •
George Lavan Weissman, 68, American communist activist and journalist.
29 •
Roald Amundsen, 71, Norwegian footballer. •
Sir Ken Anderson, 75, Australian politician, complications from Alzheimer's disease. •
Ed Bagdonas, 47, American Olympic hammer thrower (
1960). •
Rudolph Charles, 46, Trinidadian steelpan musician. •
Sir Fife Clark, 77, British journalist. •
Hermann Herbold, 78, German Olympic rower (
1928). •
Rae Jenkins, 81, Welsh violinist. •
George Murdock, 87, American anthropologist. •
Louis A. Perrotta, 84, Italian-born American surgeon. •
Jorge Reyes, 78, Argentine-Mexican actor. •
The Singing Nun, 51, Belgian Roman Catholic nun and singer ("
Dominique"), suicide by drug overdose. •
Gerhard Stöck, 73, German Olympic athlete (
1936) and Nazi officer. •
Joseph Symonds, 85, British politician,
MP (1959–1970). •
Luther Terry, 73, American physician and public health official,
surgeon general (1961–1965), heart attack. •
Bob Wilson, 58, Scottish rugby player.
30 •
George Cox Jr, 73, English cricketer. •
J. V. Cunningham, 73, American poet and literary critic, heart failure. •
Innokenti Gerasimov, 79, Soviet geographer. •
John Jolliffe, 55, British librarian and academic. •
Shizuko Kasagi, 70, Japanese singer and actress, ovarian cancer. •
Stefan Maria Kuczyński, 80, Polish historian. •
Bobby Main, 76, Scottish footballer. •
Yaeko Nogami, 99, Japanese novelist. •
Kenkichi Oshima, 76, Japanese Olympic jumper (
1932). •
Harold Peary, 76, American actor and comedian (
The Great Gildersleeve), heart attack. •
Harry Pringle, 81, Australian radio and television producer. •
Martin Roseveare, 86, English mathematician. •
Valter Schytt, 65, Swedish glaciologist. •
Marek Żuławski, 76, Polish painter and historian.
31 •
Erik Burman, 87, Swedish ice hockey player. •
Guillermo Carnero Hoke, 67, Peruvian writer and indigenous rights activist, stroke. •
Joseph Elsberry, 63, American Air Force officer (
Tuskegee Airmen), heart attack. •
Michel Georges-Michel, 101, French writer, translator and artist. •
T. C. Kelly, 67, Irish composer. •
Richard McKeon, 84, American philosopher. •
João Moojen, 80, Brazilian zoologist. •
David James Nielson, 72, British soldier and businessman. •
Joseph Rogatchewsky, 93, Russian-born French singer. ==References==